Ryan O’Connell has confirmed that the adaptation based on DeuxMoi‘s novel Anon Pls is dead at HBO Max.
While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, the screenwriter said the series had not moved forward.
“Oh, yes, but that’s over. It didn’t move forward,” O’Connell told host Andy Cohen after being asked if he had met the anonymous blogger. “But definitely had a few sessions with Deuxmoi herself.”
In 2022, HBO Max gave a script-to-series order to Anon Pls, based on DeuxMoi’s debut novel with O’Connell and Diablo Cody attached to write. Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television were attached to produce the one-hour drama series.
DeuxMoi is a pseudonymous Instagram account focused on celebrity gossip, mostly unverified, that now boasts over 2M followers. Anon Pls was written by DeuxMoi with New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman.
In the book, when Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old style Instagram account and turns it into a celebrity gossip blog on a drunken whim, she never thinks it will become anything.
When the account grows overnight and, even wilder, when she starts getting gossip from fans — juicy gossip — she has to face facts: her Instagram is now famous. She is now famous. Though no one knows that she is behind the account, its newfound success is affecting her real life.
As the account grows and becomes more and more famous, she has to wonder: is it — the fame, the insider access, the escape from real life — really worth losing everything she has?
Watch the moment in the video below.
